Super Bowl 2014: John Elway's birthplace hopes he loses

John Elway's birthplace will be rooting against him in the Super Bowl, a Seattle Times report says. Elway, executive the Broncos' vice president of football operations, was born in Washington.

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Imagine your birthplace in the enemy's corner. Now imagine it happening on the world's brightest stage, with the world's biggest city as the backdrop. John Elway's birthplace is going to hate him — for a least a few hours — while their Seahawks battle the Broncos at the 2014 Super Bowl at Metlife Stadium in East Rutherford,

Elway, executive the Broncos' vice president of football operations, was born in Port Angeles, Wash. And though he spent just a year there before the family left when his dad took a college head coaching job, it has supported him throughout his career, the report said. “I’d say our city’s bond with John will be tenuous at best on Sunday night,” Dwayne Johnson, the athletic director at Port Angeles High School, told the newspaper. “It’s going to be full-blown support for the Seahawks on Sunday.” The town's 19,056 residents will likely go back in Team Elway after the game, though, the report said.